Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 791: Characterization in a novel means the Options:
  A) list of characters featuring in it
  B) mode of presenting the fictional individuals
  C) peculiar mannerisms of the narrator
  D) resolution of the conflict between the characters.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 792:

  An act of speaking ones thought aloud by oneself, regardless of any hearer, in a play is known as____________

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) fable
  C) comedy
  D) soliloquy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 793:

  Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
  Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
  sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
  Wole Soyinka: "Night"

  The dominant mood in the lines above is one at____________

  Options:
  A) apprehension
  B) defiance
  C) joy
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 794: _______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work Options:
  A) Cast
  B) Summary
  C) Flaw
  D) Plot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 795:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  ''O fleeting gleam of noon dream You incense my clothed cream!

  Tony E. Afejuku:An Orchard of Wishes

  The literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) refrain
  C) consonance
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 796:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily

  'What is in the past is gone forever. it is only the present that belongs to us! Grasp what chance of happiness you can find at the moment with both hands!

  The past in the extract above refers to

  Options:
  A) Odibe
  B) Norman
  C) Chris
  D) Odili
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 797: Wordsworth's 'The World is Too Much With Us' is a Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) epic
  C) couplet
  D) quartrain
  E) tercet.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 798: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.If the earth were mortal Where would the flower live?If you left the earth What would happen to beauty?The poet's tone above can be described as Options:
  A) lamentative
  B) satiric
  C) imploring
  D) adoring
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 799:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The images depicted are those of

  Options:
  A) poverty and opulence
  B) opulence and brutality
  C) suffering and depression
  D) suffering and brutality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 800:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A couplet refers to

  Options:
  A) two successive lines of rhyming verse
  B) two stanzas that cannot stand alone
  C) four irregular verses in stanzas
  D) poetry that is actd on stage
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  The correct answer is A .